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Hailed by for writing with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along, nationally bestselling author Robert M. Hazen offers a radical new approach to Earth history in this intertwined tale of the planets living and nonliving spheres. With an astrobiologists imagination, a historians perspective, and a naturalists eye, Hazen calls upon twenty-first-century discoveries that have revolutionized geology and enabled scientists to envision Earths many iterations in vivid detailfrom the mile-high lava tides of its infancy to the early organisms responsible for more than two-thirds of the mineral varieties beneath our feet. Lucid, controversial, and on the cutting edge of its field, is popular science of the highest order.